Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese - Linux

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certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX. Advocates, enjoy. :-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/.../china_hacking
Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese
By PETE YOST and LARA ...

WASHINGTON - Multiple congressional computers have been hacked by people
working from inside China, lawmakers said Wednesday, suggesting the
Chinese were seeking lists of dissidents. ADVERTISEMENT

Two congressmen, both longtime critics of Beijing's record on human
rights, said the compromised computers contained information about
political dissidents from around the world. One of the lawmakers said he'd
been discouraged from disclosing the computer attacks by other U.S.
officials.

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., said four of his computers were compromised
beginning in 2006. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a senior Republican on
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said two of the computers at his
global human rights subcommittee were attacked in December 2006 and March
2007.

[....]

Smith said the intrusions were discovered when House technicians found a
virus that seemed designed to take control of the computers. Technical
experts who cleaned the computers reported that the attacks seemed to come
from the People's Republic of China.

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HPT

Re: Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

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____/ Homer on Thursday 12 June 2008 06:36 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that High Plains Thumper spake thusly:
>
>> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these
>> laptops. It certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX.
>> Advocates, enjoy. :-)
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/.../china_hacking
>
> Doh! When will these people ever learn ... you can not deploy Windows in
> mission critical or data sensitive environments. Ever. Period.
>
> And again, absolutely zero mention of Windows, even though it obviously
> was, given the mention of viruses.
>
> Mind you, I suppose we should count ourselves lucky to even be privy to
> this information at /all/, given the US Government's blanket policy of
> denial.

It's almost a non-news. Virtually all governments and all departments have
their systems compromised (even the Pentagon). There are social factors as an
eternal vector of risk, but reports seem to suggest that it's usually malware.
They sometimes say more explicitly that workers open attachments... guess
which O/S executes on click. Intervention-free hijacking of Windows is another
serious problem and armies around the world gradually (yet quietly, for
obvious reason) move their systems to Red Hat. Even the US...

hmmmm... just yesterday the JEDEDIAH hypocrite was whining that
non-advocates "...can't peacefully co-exist with anyone else and you have a
perverse need to see others suffer or fail."

Re: Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

"High Plains Thumper" schreef in bericht
newsan.2008.06.12.04.48.18.335000@invalid.invalid...
> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these laptops. It
> certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX. Advocates, enjoy.

Re: Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

chrisv wrote:
> "High Plains Thumper" schreef...
>
>> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these laptops.
>> It certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX. Advocates, enjoy.
>
> Your post is

> Fsck you arsehole troll *PLONK*

Oh, its you, clogwog - idioot!

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HPT

Re: Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

DFS wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>
>> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these laptops.
>> It certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX. Advocates, enjoy.
>> :-)
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/.../china_hacking
>
> hmmmm... just yesterday the JEDEDIAH hypocrite was whining that
> non-advocates "...can't peacefully co-exist with anyone else and you
> have a perverse need to see others suffer or fail."

Whiny little man.

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HPT

Re: Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:36:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>> Recent news, and it is not hard to figure out the OS on these
>> laptops. It certainly isn't Linux and most likely not OSX.
>> Advocates, enjoy. :-)
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/.../china_hacking
>
> hmmmm... just yesterday the JEDEDIAH hypocrite was whining that
> non-advocates "...can't peacefully co-exist with anyone else and you have a
> perverse need to see others suffer or fail."

China?

Isn't that the country the Linux loons keep bragging about because they are
converting to Linux?